Book Cover Project

This is my second book cover project. This cover is of a book I've read called Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I tried to make the cover represent a clashing of two societies, the Africans and the Europeans, because that is a major storyline in the book. I think the cover turned out well and it accurately represents what the book is about.

Book Cover Design

This is the final version of my first book cover. The book I chose was The Litigators by John Grisham. The book centered around a theme of law, so I tried to incorporate those characteristics into my book design. I like the outcome because it represents what the book is about without giving the whole story away.

Photo Editing Website Photofunia.com

This is the picture I created on Photofunia.com. The picture is a picture from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean with my face edited where the character's face was. Photofunia was my favorite website because it was easy to use and it had many different options for pictures. There were many different settings and ideas offered on the site, and all you had to do was upload your own photo and it would edit it into the background/setting you chose. This website creates images that are similar in quality to images edited in CS5, but it does all the work of editing for you. This website is very easy to use, so its target audience would probably be people who aren't very familiar with photo editing software. I would add it as a link on the webpage because it's an easy-to-use site and it produces good quality images.

Dr. Seuss Collage

This is my Dr. Seuss picture project. For this project I combined many pictures of different Dr. Seuss book covers to make a collage of some of his most famous works. I think that they best represent him as an author. While creating the collage, I combined the pictures of the book covers by merging all the layers together. Then I adjusted the lightness of the image by using the hue/saturation image adjustment. I think the project turned out well because it represents the personality of Dr. Seuss well. If I could change anything the next time I did the project, I might try adding a different effect to the text.

Life Magazine Cover

This is the picture I chose as the best Life Magazine cover. I think this image is special because it represents an activity, skateboarding, that has been done by many Americans. It is an image that shows a sport that has stayed popular in America for almost half a century now. Since the image captures the beginning of a sport that has been popular in America for almost 50 years now, I think it's a great picture.

Various Works

This first project was at the beginning of the year and we were just applying different affects to images. I desaturated the image, then I used the history brush on Andre Debose to make his figure pop out from the rest of the picture. I think it gives the picture a cool look and brings out the blue and orange colors of his jersey.

This is the second picture from the project at the beginning of the year. Once again I desaturated the image and then used the history brush on #42. Then I applied a filter in the background to give it a ripple type look. I think this image really has a cool look to it and captures the viewers attention.

This was an image from the crazy sports combos project. I combined the sports of baseball and tennis. I erased the original bat and then I used the history brush to redraw the batter's jersey. Then I placed an image of a tennis racket in the batter's hands and I changed the shadow of a bat to the shadow of a tennis racket.

This was the second image from the crazy sports combos project. I created this picture by taking a picture off of the internet of a basketball and then erasing the white background around it, and then I scaled the basketball to an appropriate size and placed it on top of the golf tee.

This was the third image from the crazy sports combos project. For this picture I took and image from the internet of a baseball and erased the white background around it. Then I placed the baseball on one of the pool balls, then copied and pasted it on top of the rest of the other pool balls. I scaled the baseballs that were further away to a smaller size so that they would look proportionate.

This was the kaleidoscope project that I made. I took an image of a wakeboard boat and followed the steps on the kaleidoscope video on youtube. I think the final product came out well and the water and the boat add a cool effect to the kaleidoscope image.

This project was the advertisement for trailside. I took 3 images from the art show and placed them throughout the poster, one being the background. I tried to vary the text sizes and colors so that they would be most appealing to viewers. I feel like the poster was informative and it was not too crowded. I think this project turned out well.

Advertisements

For this assignment, the task was to create two visually appealing and informing posters to advertise school events. I tried to make my posters concise and colorful, meaning that I just wanted to get the point across; I didn't want to have the poster covered with words. Also I wanted the poster to be visually appealing, so I used bright colors that complemented each other. I drew my inspiration from many other advertisements that I have seen before. I like how the posters turned out; they get the message across and they have a clean, colorful appearance.

Abstract Expressionism

This is my abstract expressionism project. For this project I used the paintbrush and pencil tools. I tried to spread out the different colors throughout the canvas. I would make a few big paint splotches of one color, and then I would surround them with smaller splotches of the same color to give it what I think is a cool look.

Product Advertisement

This is my product advertisement project. For this project, I used the text tools. Also I used different colors for the texts. Finally, I created a border around the text to make it stand out better.

Arcimboldo Project

This is my Arcimboldo project. For this project, I used the magic wand tool and the polygonal lasso tool.

Graphic Design Ad

This is the graphic design advertisement I made. I used 4 of my previous projects for this ad. I also changed the text of my name's texture an used the gradient and paintbrush tools.